--- Quote from: bigbri on December 12, 2012, 04:35:22 PM ---If calling a quite possibly innocent seller who doesnt know better on here a "con artist" is ok ...--- End quote ---When I saw Frank's comment in the earlier post, I wondered whether to remove it as a breach of board policy. However, his comment was, I believe, a statement of what he had said in his email to the seller and therefore the seller was in a position to respond.

Perhaps I should have been more rigid in my interpretation of what deserves to be moderated.

chopin-liszt:
For the sake of the board, better to err on the side of caution, Kev. :)

flyboy90:
In the early 90,s the backer of the Harland works told me that a quantity of PY canes were stolen and never recovered.

Frank:

--- Quote from: flyboy90 on December 13, 2012, 03:55:34 PM ---In the early 90,s the backer of the Harland works told me that a quantity of PY canes were stolen and never recovered.

--- End quote ---

Not quite true there were some stolen but all were recovered by police according to Colin Terris. But in any case the way the canes are made in the fakes differs from those made by Paul.

Frank:
What is most irritating about the saga is that the story has been well documented and at the core this was based on Paul Ysart's own assertion that he did not make the weights. That some have an interest in casting doubts on the original research based on assumptions is ignoring that most basic fact, in the market there are plenty who will assert that something is other than it seems and as we have seen will swing backwards and forwards as in the case of this weight. The have only one interest and that is to make a sale and they would rather base that sale on 'a name' than on the truth. That is utterly wrong - but I guess we cannot change the world.